- UAB-specific Master's Degree
- Code: 3977/12
- 12th edition
- Modality: Blended
- Credits: 60 ECTS
- Start date: 01/10/2022
- Finish date: 01/07/2024
- Places: 25
- Orientation: Academic
- Price: 3960 €
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Special price 3564 €
Group of application:
- Teaching language: Spanish
- Location: UD Sant Pau
Through patient management and Health-information systems, medical documentation has consolidated itself as a discipline and its presence and expansion is currently indisputable.
The main purpose of this programme is to guarantee acquisition of the necessary knowledge and skills permitting professionals in medical documentation and health-information systems, through the documentation services, to develop their function more effectively. Welfare processes are increasingly complex, and along with knowledge of communication and information technology, these involves the ability to manage healthcare-information systems that must be homogeneous, reliable and sufficient.
The programme is based on identifying the basic concepts and tools needed to manage medical information, both curative and preventative, and considers all uses of information: clinical practice, health planning, health-centre and service management, training, and the functions and abilities that professionals wishing to work in this field must be able to develop.
This course of study aims at consolidating professional competence, and is designed and structured as an itinerary, simultaneously allowing the training of other professionals and also the possibility to take modules independently.
- Information systems,
- Medical terminology, and
- Data analysis for health management, planning and research.
The main purpose of this programme is to guarantee acquisition of the necessary knowledge and skills permitting professionals in medical documentation and health-information systems, through the documentation services, to develop their function more effectively. Welfare processes are increasingly complex, and along with knowledge of communication and information technology, these involves the ability to manage healthcare-information systems that must be homogeneous, reliable and sufficient.
The programme is based on identifying the basic concepts and tools needed to manage medical information, both curative and preventative, and considers all uses of information: clinical practice, health planning, health-centre and service management, training, and the functions and abilities that professionals wishing to work in this field must be able to develop.
This course of study aims at consolidating professional competence, and is designed and structured as an itinerary, simultaneously allowing the training of other professionals and also the possibility to take modules independently.
Career opportunities
Professionals working as documentation managers in hospitals and other healthcare institutions. Responsible for:- Information systems,
- Medical terminology, and
- Data analysis for health management, planning and research.
Internships
UAB masters and graduate diplomas may include or facilitate external academic internships in companies or institutions in order to help the student to achieve a level of expertise that facilitates the insertion or promotion in the workplace.
For this study programme non-curricular (optional) internships are possible:
- Non-curricular
As a UAB student, you have access to the University occupation portal, the Occupability Service, through which you can participate in selection processes for non-curricular practices as well as getting a contract. In both cases, you need to sign up to the Nexus application.
Scholarships and financial aid
Chek all the information on the possibilities for grants and scholarships in the page for UAB financial aids, grants and calls.
Coordinating centres
Departamento de Medicina
Contact
Jose Mº Añor Grandal
Phone: 935868981